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Not Read, but Nevertheless Solved? Three Experiments on PIRLS Multiple Choice Reading Comprehension Test Items
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Sparfeldt, Jorn R.; Kimmel, Rumena; Lowenkamp, Lena; Steingraber, Antje; Rost, Detlef H. – Educational Assessment, 2012
Multiple-choice (MC) reading comprehension test items comprise three components: text passage, questions about the text, and MC answers. The construct validity of this format has been repeatedly criticized. In three between-subjects experiments, fourth graders (N[subscript 1] = 230, N[subscript 2] = 340, N[subscript 3] = 194) worked on three…
Descriptors: Test Items, Reading Comprehension, Construct Validity, Grade 4
Study Strategies and Generative Learning: What Works?
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Van Blerkom, Dianna L.; Van Blerkom, Malcolm L.; Bertsch, Sharon – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2006
One hundred nine college students participated in an experiment that involved reading a passage and responding to a 20-item multiple choice test. The students were randomly assigned to one of four groups. The four conditions involved reading and copying, reading and highlighting, reading and taking notes, and reading and generating questions.…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Educational Experiments, Multiple Choice Tests, Learning Strategies
Effects of Schema-Based and Text Structure-Based Cues on Expository Prose Comprehension in Fourth Graders.
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Spires, Hiller A.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Education, 1992
Effects of schema-based cues (previewing) and structure-based cues (structure cueing) on comprehension of expository prose were studied with 74 fourth graders. Results indicate a significant pattern of higher performance by the previewing group, in comparison with the structure-cued group and a control group. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Control Groups, Cues, Elementary School Students
The Relation Between Cloze and Multiple-Choice Test Scores as a Function of Relative Paragraph Difficulty and Grade Level.
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Mosberg, Ludwig; And Others – 1968
The relationship between cloze and multiple-choice tests as measures of reading comprehension at two grade levels, fifth and eighth, was investigated. The reading passages used in the testing were at difficulty levels either 2 years below, 2 years above, or at the subjects' grade level. The final subject sampling included 708 students from each…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cloze Procedure, Comparative Testing, Grade 5
On the Construct Validity of Multiple-Choice Items for Reading Comprehension.
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van den Bergh, Huub – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1990
In this study, 590 third graders from 12 Dutch schools took 32 tests indicating 16 semantic Structure-of-Intellect (SI) abilities and 1 of 4 reading comprehension tests, involving either multiple-choice or open-ended items. Results indicate that item type for reading comprehension is congeneric with respect to SI abilities measured. (TJH)
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Construct Validity, Elementary Education
Obtaining Information about Learners' Thinking Strategies from Wrong Answers on Multiple-Choice Tests.
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Powell, J. C.; Shklov, N. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1992
An age-dependent answer-selection sequence of answers on multiple-choice tests suggested by previous studies was supported using statistical rather than clinical means. Results with 2,810 students aged 88 months through 241 months given a reading comprehension test twice during a 5-month interval support the systematically connected age-dependent…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Children